All posts tagged "Christianity"

Art
Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
November 19, 2025The Metropolitan Museum exhibition charts the fascinating, if complex, process of cultural transformation that took place...
Art & Design
Art Review: Transition to Christianity, Onassis Cultural Center, New York City
October 9, 2025After Christianity was recognized as the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380, a...
Movies
Courageous: A Closer Look
September 20, 2025Is Courageous great art? By almost any accepted measure, no. Is it meant to be great...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
June 2, 2025The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
May 13, 2025Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Hanna Rosin Discusses God’s Harvard
February 10, 2025"Tensions often arise between secular teachings and Biblical beliefs. Many students are reading, say Kant and...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
January 27, 2025Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose...

Books
Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
January 3, 2025As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...






